The longest-serving player in the squad, Cueto is in his 14th season as a Sale player. Just four years after he started playing the game seriously, aged 17, he made his first-team debut for the Sharks and has gone on to make more than 250 appearances for the club in the intervening years. The Premiership’s record tryscorer, he passed the previous mark of 75 – set by former Sale team-mate and fellow Cumbrian Steve Hanley – in 2012-13. Capped more than 50 times by England (scoring seven tries in his first eight Test matches), he also made a Test appearance for the British and Irish Lions on their tour of New Zealand in 2005.

Sale Sharks beat Gloucester at the AJ Bell Stadium knowing the win would keep up the pressure on the leading pack and help keep the clubs hopes alive to earn a place in the elite European Competition next term.